It’s possible. I’ve just got to rule out a virus. I’m an hour and a half into the Malwarebytes scan and it hasn’t found anything yet.
LOL, fun isn't it? As a guy who uses the computers that others discard for these reasons, I have spent days scanning before I can turn it into a usable/safe computer.
On my wife's Win 7 machine, it doesn't take more than 45 minutes to run a full scan.
It's a i7 quad core laptop with 6Gb of memory.
Do you know if you have an i3, i5, or i7 processor?
I'm just suspicious of the time it's taking to run the scan.